Ali Dasdan, Dropbox CTO on Scaling AI Infra & Engineering Leadership

Ali Dasdan is the Chief Technology Officer at Dropbox, where he leads the company's technology strategy, AI initiatives, and engineering organization serving more than 700 million users on an exabyte-scale platform.~~~~~~~~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Nebius — the ultimate cloud for AI innovators.Nebius provides AI infrastructure you can count on, combining reliability and speed with flexibility and engineering support unmatched by hyperscalers.AI leaders like Meta, Shopify, and Higgsfield already partner with Nebius to run their AI workloads. Plus, venture-backed startups can save up to $150,000 on compute costs when they apply for access. Visit nebius.com or nebius.com/startups to learn more~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Before joining Dropbox, Ali served as CTO at ZoomInfo, where he helped build AI-powered search, chat, and developer productivity products. He has also held engineering leadership roles at Atlassian, eBay, Yahoo, Tesco, Turn, Vida, and Poynt, bringing more than 25 years of experience scaling global engineering organizations and mission-critical platforms across enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, search, and AI. A five-time CTO, Ali is known for his "6P Framework" for scaling technology organizations—People, Passion, Productivity, Platform, Product, and Process—which he has used to transform engineering teams, accelerate product development, and improve organizational performance. His work spans nearly three decades of artificial intelligence, from early neural network research to modern machine learning systems, AI-powered search, developer productivity, and large language models. Ali is also a prolific inventor, holding more than 45 U.S. patents and over 5,000 academic citations. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.TopicsLeading AI strategy at Dropbox: building AI products and infrastructure for hundreds of millions of usersThe 6P framework: how great engineering organizations scale people, platforms, productivity, and innovation togetherLessons from 25+ years of AI leadership across Dropbox, ZoomInfo, Atlassian, Yahoo, eBay, and beyond#ArtificialIntelligence #EngineeringLeadership #Dropbox #EnterpriseAI #CTO